The strategies offered in these three handbooks can equip a reader to thrive in present conditions as well as in a period of greater environmental and economic distress. The author contends that assets undervalued by the industrial era- spiritual strength, communal social skills, and practical knowledge-will become both the means to maintain quality of life amid disruptions, and also the bridge to a better society in the future. Each handbook addresses one of these topics in enough detail to lead readers to feel confident in expanding their own capacities. This book doesn't elaborate on specific details of the many interconnected problems we're currently facing as a society, but also doesn't shy away from the recognition that our current path is leading our civilization to collapse.